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Cyber Power
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Cyber Power

by Solange Ghernaouti-Helie
April 2016
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
220 pages
15h 17m
English
EPFL Press
Content preview from Cyber Power
Glossary of main cybercrime
and cybersecurity related terms
Access control Mechanism that serves to protect a resource (a service, system, data or pro-
gram) from inappropriate or unauthorized use.
Accident Unforeseeable incident causing prejudice to an entity.
Active attack Attack which alters the targeted resources (affecting integrity, availability, con-
dentiality).
Adware Adware, meaning advertising supported software, is a piece of software bundled
with a program. It is designed to automatically download or display advertising banners as
soon as the computer user installs the program. An adware is different from a spyware in the
sense that an adware does not aim to collect private information in order to perform theft. But
a controversy ...
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Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781466573048